Reports that COVID-19 has spread to Iranian prisons are deeply troubling and demand nothing less than the full and immediate release of all American citizens, their detention amid increasingly deteriorating conditions defies basic human decency. State Mike Pompeo More Quotes by State Mike Pompeo More Quotes From State Mike Pompeo I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan. State Mike Pompeo President Donald Trump is very clear, we're gon na hold those responsible accountable and we'll do so on a timeline that is our own. State Mike Pompeo You've got the facts just about right. State Mike Pompeo These are the kinds of things that have presented this enormous crisis and enormous loss of life and tremendous economic loss all across the globe, the Australians agree with The Australians, you hear the Europeans beginning to say the same thing, and I think the whole world is united understanding that China brought this virus to the world. State Mike Pompeo I've seen that reporting too. I've seen some of our internal information as well. We can confirm at least the initial reports are that you've described are just about right. A handful of shots that came across from the North. We think those were accidental. South Koreans did return fire so far as we can tell there was no loss of life on either side. State Mike Pompeo We don't know why Chairman Kim chose to miss that moment. We know there've been other extended periods of time where Chairman Kim's been out of public view as well, so it's not unprecedented. So there's not much I can share with you other than we've seen the same images from yesterday that the world saw. It looks like Chairman Kim is alive and well, regardless of any of that, our mission is, remains the same -- to convince the North Koreans to give up their nuclear weapons, to verify the same and to then create a brighter future for the North Korean people. State Mike Pompeo We're not going to let that happen. State Mike Pompeo UN Security Council Resolution 2231 is unambiguous where An Iranian official is a participant in the UN Security, An Iranian official's just there in language, there is nothing magic about this. There is no fancy -- someone suggested this is fancy lawyering. It's just reading, we are going to make sure that come October of this year, the Iranians aren't able to buy conventional weapons. State Mike Pompeo We still haven't gained access, the world hasn't gained access to the WIV( Wuhan Institute of Virology) there. We don't know precisely where this virus originated from. State Mike Pompeo Given the strong link between illegal wildlife sold in wet markets and zoonotic diseases, the United States has called on the People's Republic of China to permanently close its wildlife wet markets and all markets that sell illegal wildlife. State Mike Pompeo Beijing and its representatives in Hong Kong continue to take actions inconsistent with commitments made under the Sino-British Joint Declaration that include transparency, the rule of law, and guarantees that Hong Kong will continue to 'enjoy a high degree of autonomy'. State Mike Pompeo We call upon the actor in question to refrain from carrying out disruptive malicious cyber activity against the Czech Republic's healthcare system or similar infrastructure elsewhere. State Mike Pompeo The United States has zero tolerance for malicious cyber activity designed to undermine U.S. and international partners' efforts to protect, assist, and inform the public during this global pandemic, such activity against critical civilian infrastructure is deeply irresponsible and dangerous. State Mike Pompeo We know that this virusoriginated in Wuhan, China. State Mike Pompeo We need answers to these questions, we need transparency and we need the World Health Organization to do its job, to perform its primary function, which is to make sure that the world has accurate, timely, effective, real information about what's going on in the global health space, and they didn't get that done here. State Mike Pompeo We're going to keep it up as long as we have resources to do it and there is a need. State Mike Pompeo A lot of these flights have been flown by commercial airlines -- by American, United -- who have agreed to help us and send down aircraft or found an aircraft that we could put somebody aboard, we urge you... to participate to the fullest extent possible. State Mike Pompeo Weve asked every country to step up andtell us what they know so that the world can learn, america will then turn around, we will share the information we get and well keep people safe, not only here in the United States, but all across the world. State Mike Pompeo With respect to the statement, I always think about these meetings the right answer is to make sure we have the same message coming out of it. State Mike Pompeo I always think about these meetings the right answer is to make sure we have the same message coming out of it, i am confident that when State Mike Pompeo hear the other six foreign ministers speak, they will have a common understanding of what we talked about today. 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